Product OverviewNon-Stop GamingEquip yourself with the MSI Arsenal GAMING Series motherboards to improve your game. MSI Arsenal GAMING Series motherboards are covered in full black camouflage with LED ambient lights and is packed with gaming features, making them the perfect weapon to dominate the battlefield.

Unmatched Memory Performance and Stability

DDR4 BoostWith traditional memory design the memory signals are often distorted by electromagnetic signals from other components, making the system perform slower or become unstable. MSI introduces DDR4 Boost technology with optimized traces and fully isolated memory circuitry. This design ensures the memory signals stay pure for optimal performance and stability.

XMP LEDAn added XMP LED highlights an active Extreme Memory Profile for the best memory speed and stability setting.

Gaming LED EffectThe Arsenal GAMING Series motherboards come with LEDs on the back of the motherboard to let you fully enjoy the gaming side of things. Like war paint, turn them on for the full Arsenal GAMING experience and you are ready to dominate any battlefield.

Gaming LAN: Dominate the Game with Lowest LatencyGet ready to crush your enemies on the battlefield with MSI® GAMING LAN, featuring carefully selected components to ensure the best online gaming experience without lag.

MSI Gaming LAN Manager• Automatically prioritizes games above other applications.• Allows you to change applications' traffic priority.• Allows you to customize you to customize bandwidth for each application.

MSI Audio Boost: Studio Grade Sound With Audio BoostWith Audio Boost we're delivering the highest sound quality through the use of premium quality audio components. That way, you can enjoy breathtaking, crystal clear sound and music through 6-channel Audio or high impendence headphones and truly dominate the game.

• Isolated Audio PCB: Audio Boost acts like a dedicated soundcard by physically isolating the audio circuitry to give you a more clear audio signal.• Chemi-Con Audio Capacitors: Delivering high fidelity crystal clear sound with exceptional acoustics and realism.• Separated Left/Right Audio Layers: Equal and perfect sound quality for left & right channel audio through the use of seperated layers in the PCB.• Anti-popcorn Noise: Audio Boost protects your ears against annoying loud popping sounds when you plug devices in or out or turn your PC on/off.• 7.1 Channel Audio with S/PDIF: With high quality audio connectors you get the best possible signal output with less chance of distortion.• Front Dedicated Headphone Out: Convenient use of the front panel audio output while retaining high quality amplified sound.

Gaming HotkeyGaming Hotkey enables more functionality using your own keyboard. Simply assign functions or macros to any key and launch your favorite games, load overclocking profiles or do real-time overclocking with the push of a single button. The possibilities are endless!

Front USB 3.1 Gen1With a cleverly placed USB 3.1 Gen1 front pin header on MSI motherboards, you can connect up to 4 USB 3.1 Gen1 devices directly to the front of your PC Chassis. This way you can easily enjoy fast USB speeds without having to use the hard-to-reach USB ports at the rear.

Fast Storage With SATA ExpressSATA Express offers a solution in high speed storage through PCI-Express, providing more bandwidth for the latest generation SSDs up to 16 Gb/s.

Enhanced CPU Overcurrent ProtectionOnboard overcurrent protection prevents overcurrent and short-circuit damage of the CPU and other components. A red LED near the 24 pin CPU power connector let’s you know that overcurrent protection is activated for easier troubleshooting.

EZ Debug LED: Easy DiagnosticMSI EZ Debug LED is an easy troubleshooting tool built with 3 LEDs to indicate to CPU / Memory / VGA operation every time you boot up your system. Run into trouble? Use the LEDs to easily identify the item causing problems.

Steelseries Certified: Get ready to enjoy the best gaming experience with MSI & SteelSeries!Enthusiast gaming gear brand SteelSeries has officially approved MSI GAMING motherboards as ‘SteelSeries Certified (SSC)’. This certification was built on the performance demands and stability of MSI GAMING motherboards and SteelSeries products. Your SteelSeries keyboard, mouse and other top quality gaming gear work best on MSI GAMING motherboards.

Gaming CertifiedOur GAMING motherboards are tested in our gaming lab, internet cafes and together with the world’s best eSports players to make sure you get top performance and reliability in the world’s most popular games. Through 24-hour on- and offline game testing, MSI ensures the onboard network configuration, audio reception and FPS performance are tested and tuned to perfection for you to enjoy the best possible gameplay experience.

Only the motherboards that pass this test receive the GAMING CERTIFIED status and are considered true MSI® GAMING motherboards.

Military Class 4 Components• Dark Choke: Dark Choke uses the special core design and allows the Dark Choke to run at a lower temperature with higher capacity and better power efficiency and stability.• Solid CAP: With their aluminum core design and Japanese made quality, Solid CAPs are made for high-end design motherboard. Not only do Solid CAPs could provide lower Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR), but also work firmly for over-10-year.

Guard-ProHumidity Protection: Reduction in moisture absorption helps prevent "Conductive Anodic Filament". Untreated PCB's can have 10x higher failure rate.High Temperature Protection: All key components used in MSI motherboards have all passed military testing ensuring stable operation in the harshest environments.Circuit Protection: Carefully selected materials, multiple PCB layers and shielding result in the best circuit protection for our GAMING motherboards. ESD Protection: Each and every I/O port is protected against the hazards of Electro Static Discharge.EMI Protection: All MSI motherboards comply with strict American FCC regulations and reduce the impact of Electromagnetic Interference.

Benefit From The New Intel® Small Business Advantage Solution With MSI® Motherboards:Intel® SBA is a unique, customizable solution that helps improve small businesses data security, maximizes employee productivity and boosts overall office computers’ performance.

That way, you can enjoy the best graphics at the highest framerate jumping from your screen when running an AMD CrossFire™ setup.

MSI® Steel Armor:Steel Armor has more solder points on the PCB for more strength and protects the PCI-Express signals against electromagnetic interference for a stutter-free gaming experience and higher GPU overclocking.

MSI® VGA Armor with Reinforced, Heavy Soldered Connections is up to 35% Stronger than VGA slots with no Strengthening.

The All New, Award-Winning CLICK BIOS 5Explore the greatly improved, award-winning CLICK BIOS 5 and use it to tune your system to maximum performance to get the most out of your games. MSI CLICK BIOS 5 is the next generation UEFI BIOS with optimizations for Windows 10.

Control your system in two modes: EZ mode, for the most used settings and functions. Advanced mode for more detailed settings and fine-tuning options to boost your system’s performance.

OBS Streaming software:Share your gaming achievements with the world! Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) is world’s most popular open source software for video recording and live streaming. Show your friends your gaming progress live.

Plenty of plugins:Add different profiles, each of them with its own settings. Easy to use OBS for anyone, in any situation.

CPU-Z MSI Gaming EditionMSI has worked closely with CPUID to develop this special edition of CPU-Z featuring the famous MSI GAMING dragon. Use CPU-Z to gather information on some of the main devices of your system, such as your CPU speed, Memory speed and timings, motherboard BIOS version and much more.

SSD not fast enough? Try MSI RAMDISK!Get an unlimited RAMDisk for free (worth $35) with MSI GAMING motherboards. With a RAMDisk you can create a virtual drive from your system memory enabling speeds up to 25x faster than a modern SSD. You can load complete game images, speed up your browser or your page file significantly increasing system performance ! You even increase the lifespan of your SSD by using RAMDisk as it reduces unnecessary read and write operations to your SSD.

Legacy DVI / VGA Video SupportTo support professional monitors, TV's, beamers and other displays, this MSI motherboard features DVI and a VGA video output. No matter what screen type you want to connect, using a dedicated graphics card or an onboard connector, MSI motherboards have you covered.